Finalist, 2014 Maggie Awards for Excellence!
Semi-finalist, Kindle Book Review's 2014 Best Kindle Book Awards!
ANTONIO LEGATO
I’ve finally earned my place in the Lucchesi family. Me, the orphan, the outsider, the blond-haired, blue-eyed boy who doesn’t really belong.
I’ve fought hard to get where I am, and I love Enrico Lucchesi like a father. I would never betray him. But when the girl who broke me, Bianca Lucchesi, comes back into my life, my traitorous heart has other ideas.
Dangerous ideas. Ideas that could tear the Lucchesi family apart.
Especially if Bianca ever learns the role I played in her father’s death.
BIANCA LUCCHESI
I’m too young to have this many regrets.
Years ago, I ripped out the heart of the boy I loved, all so I could keep an awful secret that’s tearing me apart, day by day. I’ve lied to everyone. Most of all, to myself. And I want to stop. But I can’t.
My brother knows what I’ve done, and he’s holding it over my head. He wants me to help him destroy Antonio Legato, the usurper who’s taken my brother’s rightful place in the family.
I don’t want to hurt Antonio again. I don’t. But I’m going to.
And he can never learn why.
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CONTENT WARNING: Redemption is a dark Mafia romance that contains graphic language, sexual situations, and violence. You have been warned.
READING ORDER:
Malavita- PG-13 (optional--you can start with R-rated Revenge instead)
Revenge
Retribution
Redemption
Reckoning
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Excerpt:
Her heart pounding, Bianca Lucchesi smiled at the man she'd come to see while doing her best to ignore the one she'd never wanted to see again. Antonio Legato. She'd arranged to meet her uncle at the bank instead of at his home because she'd hoped to avoid Antonio. And here he was anyway.
Dio mio, would her heart never slow down? One glimpse of him had been enough to bring everything back. Everything she'd tried so damn hard to suppress. To forget.
She took a breath and widened her smile. "Zio Enrico," she said as he came around the desk and embraced her, kissing her on both cheeks. Marriage had agreed with her godfather. He was still lean, still handsome as sin, with that black hair and those chocolate eyes.
"Prego," he said, motioning to the chair beside Antonio. "I don't believe you've met my capo di società, Antonio Legato."
Would Antonio say something about their past? She stuck out her hand and tried to look mildly interested. Anything but infuriated. Or hurt. "Signore," she said.
Antonio rose and took her hand in his large one. Cristo, he'd grown. He was a man now--at least six feet, with the broad shoulders and slim hips of a male in his prime.
His blue eyes met hers, a shock of unruly blond hair falling just over them. Though he looked a little pale, a wave of heat rolled through her. How many nights had she dreamed of him unbidden? How many times had she relived those moments they'd spent together?
He flashed her a casual smile, as if he were utterly unaffected by her, and pressed a kiss to her knuckles, the light brush of his lips reminding her of other places he'd kissed.
"Signorina Lucchesi. It's a pleasure. I haven't seen you since secondary school."
"I wasn't aware you knew each other," Enrico said.
"We had a class together," Antonio said. "Chemistry, I believe."
Bianca wanted to kick him in the shin. Was he trying to flirt with her? Chemistry! Yes, they'd had it. But outside of class.
"You're mistaken, signore. It was biology, not chemistry."
"My error." He was still grinning at her--the arrogant bastard. Did he think she still wanted him? Well if he did, he was all wrong.
Antonio let go of her hand, and they retook their seats. Bianca's skin tingled where he had touched her, and she resisted the urge to press her hand to her mouth, to feel that tingling against her lips. Damn him. Antonio Legato was a hundred different kinds of infuriating.
And he knew it.
Dark Mafia Romance, Dark Gritty Romantic Suspense, Mob Romance, Mobster Romance
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